appendix : Idioms & Phrases

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auricular appendix

  • noun a pouch projecting from the top front of each atrium of the heart
    auricula; auricular appendage.
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Vermiform appendix

  • noun a vestigial process that extends from the lower end of the cecum and that resembles a small pouch
    cecal appendage; appendix; vermiform process.
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  • (Anat.), a slender blind process of the cæcum in man and some other animals; called also vermiform appendage, and vermiform process. Small solid bodies, such as grape seeds or cherry stones, sometimes lodge in it, causing serious, or even fatal, inflammation. See Illust. under Digestion.
Webster 1913